Its just all so unbelievably stupid… www.ft.com/content/a73e...

Pakistan's solar revolution: from 0% to 25% in a decade. 2021: 4% 2022: 7% 2023: 10% 2024: 14% 2025: 25% Solar is now Pakistan's #1 electricity source. Not driven by policy — driven by consumers.

Can the US release more of its strategic oil reserves? "The SPR has a practical operational floor near 150–160 mb that must remain in place to preserve cavern stability." Given Trumps concern for negative long-run consequences, I guess the SPR will be fully depleted... www.ft.com/content/2b00...

bsky.app/profile/conr... The US and Canada on opposite ends here is quite something. Contrast Effects?

Wie gut, dass Eric Gujer die Zukunft immer so klar (anders) vorhersehen kann

📢 The Call for Papers for the 𝗖𝗘𝗦𝗶𝗳𝗼 𝗔𝗿𝗲𝗮 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗕𝗲𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗶𝗼𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗘𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗰𝘀, organized by @klaus-m-schmidt.bsky.social & Ernst Fehr is now open! Keynotes: Supreet Kaur & @philippstrack.bsky.social 📆 𝟮𝟯 - 𝟮𝟰 𝗢𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 ℹ️https://www.ifo.de/cesifo/f9G In cooperation with @rationalitycrc.bsky.social

Would‘t it be nice if people simply refused to go? www.kicker.ch/auch-fuer-df...

Hard to find myself in agreement with Trump. But given his obsession with renaming stuff, this seems like a sensible one. bsky.app/profile/atru...

A senior academic using mentoring as leverage to obtain sex is a contemptible abuser of power.

📢The #Fribourg #WinterSchool in #DataAnalytics & #MachineLearning is coming up (Feb 2–13, 2026)! On site at @unifr.bsky.social or online - covering data analytics, predictive & causal machine learning, and deep learning using Python, R, Julia & Knime. Register now: www.unifr.ch/appecon/en/w...

New Substack post: the Nobel Prize goes to an economic historian and two economists of growth trying to answer the question, where do new technologies come from? someunpleasant.substack.com/p/growing-th...

"This year's Nobel Peace Prize goes to a champion of peace. To a WOMAN..." was a great way to introduce the prize before giving out the name!

Wow! Congratulations, @econ.uzh.ch bsky.app/profile/flor...

Trump: Where do women keep Tylenol? Staffer: I guess kitchen cabinets, bathroom vanities and associated products.

We have an opening for a professorship in Heidelberg in labor economics, political economy, or more generally in applied micro. Please share!

I just ordered a copy of @causalhuber.bsky.social's brand new book, and I'm excited to have a look at it! mitpress.mit.edu/978026255292...

🎉 Seems like the release of "Impact Evaluation in Firms and Organizations" is off to a great start! Huge thanks to everyone who's been reading, sharing, and supporting my book! mitpress.mit.edu/978026255292...

So Trump is saying that the investment promises within the trade "deals" are "like a signing bonus in baseball", and that its "our money to invest as we like". (starting around 2:45). Specifically mentions 550b from Japan and 650b from the EU that are his to spend. www.cnbc.com/video/2025/0...

This is the First Time I regret I am no longer on Twitter. But luckily there is almost instantaneous Cross-posting 🙂

THREE full professorships in Data Science, Microeconomics & Behavioral Econ — great colleagues, excellent research conditions and a spectacular setting in the Alps. Please share! 📈📉

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So pauschal wie die USA die Zölle festgelegt haben frage ich mich dann doch, ob sich die offizielle Schweiz nicht zu früh "freut" in der Annahme, dass die Pharmabranche von den Zöllen ausgeschlossen sei. Dass Trump sich für irgendwelche WTO-Abkommen interessiert wage ich zumindest zu bezweifeln.

Donald Trump has committed the most profound, harmful and unnecessary economic error in the modern era. Almost everything he said—on history, economics and the technicalities of trade—was utterly deluded econ.st/3YbbFjq

War wohl eher ne Fehlkalkulation was das Wohl der Schweiz angeht.

I have a postdoc position in Behavioral/Experimental Economics available for 6 years, at the oldest university in Germany in beautiful Heidelberg. Please forward to anyone who might be interested! #EconJobs #AcademicJobs #HigherEd #Economics #JobAlert

Ich befürchte zudem, dass mithilfe des Sondervermögens Spielräume für Wahlgeschenke geschaffen werden: Union/SPD wollen Mütterrente ausweiten, Agrardiesel subventionieren und MwSt. in Gastronomie senken: All das schafft kein Wachstum, setzt falsche Anreize & ist Klientelpolitik.

Ihr wollt der Ukraine helfen? Und gleichzeitig etwas coole Oekonomik lernen. Dann macht bitte hier bei dieser Aktion mit, die von @georgweizsaecker.bsky.social von der HU Berlin initiiert wurde. Es lohnt sich in so vielen Hinsichten. yourcontributionsquared.eu

Great Initiative and cool mechanism by two very trustworthy economists, @georgweizsaecker.bsky.social and @oechssler.bsky.social. Contribute if you can! bsky.app/profile/geor...

If one person gives a euro to Ukraine, the result is €1. If two people give 2 each, it is €4. If 3,000 give 3,000 each, it is 9 million. Let’s coordinate, here 👇 and please re-post to spread the word. yourcontributionsquared.eu/en/

Remarkable: Merz wants to discuss reforming debt brake in the *outgoing* Bundestag, where CDU/CSU+SPD+Greens still have over 2/3 of seats, before new Bundestag is constituted by 25 March. Greens already signalled willingness this morning.

I have an open PhD position in (mostly) behavioral economics at the University of Fribourg. Given the difficult situation right now in terms of science funding, maybe this is of interest to some of you, or someone you know. Please share! drive.google.com/file/d/1D6wS...

TBF, he's probably only looking at this chart

I, the king of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity......

Fourth, other sources beyond the monthly employment report will be informative: - UI claims over the next 2-3 weeks for federal workers, and over a longer period for private workers. States report these; if feds doctor them, we’ll know. - Job postings on Indeed, etc. - Business confidence surveys.

The problem here for Trump is that he’s not in a position to give Putin what he wants, even if he’s minded to. No decision made in the White House will be binding on Europe, or even on the next US administration. And Putin knows that, too. /18

Leider ist „Evidenzbasiert“ wohl beiden Schweizer Bundesratskandidaten ein Fremdwort… www.nzz.ch/schweiz/bund...

Sales of electric vehicles increased by 53.5% year-on-year in Germany. At the same time, sales of Tesla dropped by 60%! Crazy numbers against the market trend. I wonder what the cause might be... www.spiegel.de/auto/elektro...

Forthcoming article by Matthias Rodemeier and andreasloeschel.bsky.social "Information Nudges, Subsidies, and Crowding Out of Attention: Field Evidence from Energy Efficiency Investments" @eeanews.bsky.social s.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/jeea...

Major protest in Berlin today against right-wing migration policies and the CDU’s willingness to cooperate with the far-right AfD 👀

Das Bayerische Kultusministerium „stößt sich demnach etwa an dem Begriff »Profitmaximierung«. Dieser sei eine den »Begrifflichkeiten der kommunistischen Ideologie zuzuordnende Wendung.“ Jetzt aber aufpassen in der Mikrovorlesung!

Stock markets go down on what appear to be very good news for welfare: A more efficient production technology (and maybe more competition). Shows the limits of taking stock market indices as an indicator for (changes in) societal welfare. www.ft.com/content/e670...

In diesen Zeiten ist es wichtig, diesen Teil der Geschichte genau zu kennen. Kein Zufall, dass der Artikel des Historikers Timothy W. Ryback der momentan meistgelesene Text im Atlantic ist. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

"The Strain" paper has now the highest AltMetric score *of all time* among MIT press papers. What to say... well, *thank you* all. All this interest means that sound, clean, detailed data about scientific publisher is in high demand as scientist wan to reform the system. Let's press on!

#Trump ist, wenn‘s selbst der Dolmetscher irgendwann nicht mehr aushält… (Bis zum Ende anschauen!)

German unis and research institutions leaving X idw-online.de/de/news845520

When I see these headlines, I instinctively laugh and then my laugh freezes because this simply is no longer a joke.

The call for papers for the NBER Organizational Economics Working group (April 10-11 2025) is out! If you have a paper you would like considered for presentation, please upload it to this link by 11:59 pm ET on February 14, 2025: conference.nber.org/confsubmit/b... Pls retweet (or reskeet?)

About time to deactivate the Account on that other Site….